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Thursday, November 02, 2017

I have done a lot of book ones but have I ever done worst movie made from a good book? Things got so bad back in the day with the Grisham books turned to movies I gave up for a long time. I will say that if they had made the Harry Potter movies four hours I would have gone alone with it. They were great adaptations. Godfather was good. Hunger Games. They messed up Lovely Bones. Ditto with the Jack Reacher movies. I could go on.

I'm going to veer a bit and go with worst movie adapted from a good comic book. The 2004 Punisher movie. It was mainly based off of the "Welcome Back, Frank" story arc by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon (the guys behind the Preacher comic) and boy was it terrible. It seemed like the filmmakers read the book and then just shoehorned cool bits from it nonsensically into the movie.

My rule is: I read manga, but I won't watch live-action, I saw a still of live-action Sailor Moon and I went "HEEELLLLL NO" (I don't even like all anime—I find it irritating, and certain styles of drawing irks me, I like the '70s stuff). And I only watch film adaptations of American comic books (but I will never read the books). That's my rule.

American Psycho on its own was fine -- but was not true to the book in that director Mary Herron decided to make this an all-in-his-mind fantasy/delusion. Which took the horror of it completely out of it. I understand why a feminist might want to do that (in a way), but the book was about an elite Wall Street guy being able to literally get away with murder and nobody really ever would question someone of that status.

I begrudgingly liked Interview With The Vampire. Probably because I was convinced it was going to be a real piece of shit. Not the best movie, but not the worst.

Have to agree 100% about Dune, though. Someone convinced me to read the book after I saw the movie in the theatre (was surprised at the amount of people who walked out). After reading the book I realized the movie was heavily edited. There was so much information that was left out explaining why many things didn't make sense in the movie. The only good thing about that movie was seeing Sting in that speedo with wings.

It was pretty true to the book. Tom Cruise was so horribly cast as Lestat, though, that it ruined the movie. (Christian Slater, Brad Pitt, Antonio Banderas were all perfect but even all together couldn't overcome the visual stink of the miscast Tom Cruise.)

50 Shades, but that's mostly due to poor casting.Twighlight movies, poor casting and bad scriptsConfessions of a ShopaholicDefinitely Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher, wouldn't even see the movie with him as the leadHow the Grinch Stole Christmas, really don't know how you mess up this book, but they did

A Winter's Tale. Written/directed by Akiva Goldsman in his directorial debut. Martin Scorsese was attached to it but walked away because he said it wasn't adaptable to the screen. If Marty can't do it, it's time to walk away.

My 14 year old son just read "Interview" and loved it. He's about halfway through the second one. He urged me to read "Interview" and I tried mightily, but I put it down and can't make myself pick it back up because I keep getting distracted by GOOD books. Every day he asks me if I've read any more of it, and I suppose I will have to out of sheer love for him, but I just don't get the appeal.

Most films based on books, don't do the books any justice, because when we read, we create the story from our own perspective and imagination. It's subjective and personal. A stranger can hardly ever recreate that to our own satisfaction; it becomes objective and therefor general, without investing in our own interpretation.

I can think of many films that have butchered the experience of reading the story for myself, but one that I actually enjoyed and that positively surprised me was The Perfume.

@Meagan Arturo Pérez-Reverte's books have been butchered frequently The Club Dumas/The Nineth Gate are a good example. La Carta Esférica is Awful, but I didn't like the book either. Alatriste is a good movie... if you haven't read the books. But the worst of all is Uncovered, based on The Flandes Panel. Absolutely AWFUL. The Fencing Master on the other hand is a great adaptation of the book (one of my favourite novel of Reverte).

Just thought of another one - The Tale of Despereaux. I had read the book to my son, so we went to see it at the theatre. The title and the names of the characters were the same but that was it. We were so disappointed.

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